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| ISBN: | 1000075893
9780367853624
0367853620
9781000075939
1000075931
9781000075915
1000075915
9781000075892
9780367425753 (hbk.)
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pam Christie is Professor Emeritus in Education, University of Cape Town, and Honorary Professor, University of Queensland. She has worked extensively with schools, government departments, and NGOs in South Africa and Australia on topics such as educational change, leadership, school development, and teacher education.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2020).
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| Summary: | This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa. It examines theon the ground' history of colonialism from the vantage point of a small town in the Karoo region, showing how patterns of possession and dispossession have played out in the municipality and schools. Using the strong political and ontological critique of decoloniality theories, the book demonstrates the ways in which government interventions over many years have allowed colonial relations and the construction of racialised differences to linger in new forms, including unequal access to schooling. Written in an accessible style, the book considers how the dream of decolonial schooling might be realised, from the vantage point of research on the margins. This Karoo region also offers an interesting case study as the site where the world's largest radio telescope was recently located and highlights the contrasting logics of international big science' and local development needs. This book will be of interest to academics and scholars in the education field as well as to social geographers, sociologists, human geographers, historians and policy makers.
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| Other form: | Print version: 9780367425753
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| Standard no.: | 10.4324/9780367853624
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